History 150 Exam 2
What was the trail of tears?
17,000 Cherokee forced to walk from GA to OK and 1/4 died
How much did they cut the national debt?
83 million to 45 million
Who was Thomas Jeffersons Secretary of Treasury?
Albert Gallatin
Pinckney Treaty
Allowed US to navigate the Mississippi River
7th President
Andrew Jackson
Who led the battle of horseshoe run
Andrew Jackson
Abolition
Andrew Lloyd Garrison wrote a newspaper called the liberator and spoke against slavery. Said slavery should end immediately, unconditionally, and universally. Started the :American anti slavery society."
What was the national bank called?
BUS (First Bank of the United States)
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Battle with the Natives along side the british
Mexican War
Border dispute. America wins. Takes California after America takes Mexico City and captures Winfield Scott.
Who was in the war of 1812?
Britain and the US (Britain comes to US) Thames vs. William Harrison
Louisiana Purchase
Buy land from France for $15 million (Cheap)
What states did mexico give to the US?
Ca and Nm
Why was there Economic growth after 1820?
Copying Britain and America creates canals for transportation. Erie Canal was the most successful canal in the US.
What do they they do to try to fix the debt
Cut spending - Reduced the army and navy
Where does the british army attack?
DC and it burns, everything is gone in the white house besides the walls.
Declaration of sentiments
Declaration of Independence for women
Why was the Embargo repealed?
Depression on 1808
What was the whiskey rebellion? Who shut it down?
Farmers protesting the new whiskey tax: George Washington sent out his troops to end it quickly
What were the political parties at the time? What was George Washington?
Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans. George Washington was neither.
What does the british have to go through to attack Baltimore?
Fort McHenry- They fail. ( this is when the star spangled banner is written.)
Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington
How was the economy of the US at this time?
Government is 54 million $ in debt
Who duels on July 11th, 1804
Hamilton and Burr- Hamilton dies, so Burr flees and plots to take over mexico. he goes on trial for treason, but is found not guilty, runs to England, but comes back to America and lives in poverty
What was the Assumption Bill?
Hamilton was pushing for Congress to pass this to allow the Federal government to assume debts accumulated by the states during the American Revolutionary War.
What was Nat Turner?
He led the slave rebellion and killed 55 white people
Who creates a compromise between Jackson and SC?
Henry Clay
The Indian Removal
Indians win in court, but Jackson still pushed them out with armed forces- leads to trail of tears
Sixth President
J.Q. Adams
Who was the 4th President
James Madison
Who was speaker of the house?
James Madison (Bill of rights)
Who was the 5th President?
James Monroe
Who was George Washington's Vice President?
John Adams
Who was the 2nd President?
John Adams
Chief Justice
John Marshall
10th president
John Tyler
Virginia + Kentucky Resolutions
Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional
** Missouri Compromise
Maine Free and Missouri Slave. The rest of the land in the Louisiana purchase would be divided at 36 and 30 degrees north- above will be free states
8th President
Martin Van Buren- Economy died- which led to the Panic of 1837
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico recognized rio grande river as the border of the texas
What order were the capitals?
NYC- Philly- DC
Where does the British look next to attack and who leads the people?
New Orleans- Andrew Jackson- America wins!
Where was the first capital city?
New York City
Bank War (The fall of 2 Bus)
Nicholas Biddle (head of 2 bus) requests to recharter bill after Clay asked him to, but Clay tricked him because he knew Andrew Jackson would veto it, which he did. Andrew Jackson killed the bank.
Fredrick Douglass
Part of the abolitionist movement. Started as a slave, but learned to read and write, then he escaped. Has a newspaper called the Newspaper called "The North Star" to inform slaves about the underground railroad.
What occurred under the Washington Administration
Revenue- Tariff (Tax on goods)- excise tax on whiskey
Who does Jackson nominate and who takes out all the money without permission?
Roger B Tarey- Later becomes Chief Justice
Women's Rights
Seneca falls convention-the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
What made up the cabinet and who was in it?
State Department- Thomas Jefferson Treasury- Hamilton War Department- Knox Attorney General- Randolph
Chesapeake- Leopard Affair (Jefferson's Demands)
Stop impressment- no Return the men (prisoners)- Gave back 3 Pay for damage to the Chesapeake Punish the Leopard Captain- Barley
American System
Strong national bank, Internal Improvements, Tariff
Marbury vs. Madison
Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review" -- the power of federal courts to void acts of Congress in conflict with the Constitution
What was Jacksons plan for the BUS? Who does Jackson fire?
Take all the governments money out of the BUS and both his treasurers because they refused.
Reforms
Temperance and education reform (Horace Mann) Horace Mann is one of the most well-known reformers of education in the United States. He is often credited with leading the Common School Movement, which helped to lay the framework for a publicly funded education
Texas Revolution
Texans led into San Jacinto (Texan Victory) Texas receives its own independence. Texas was an indenting republic after denial of the union: it was its own country
Adams Onis Treaty
The Adams Onis Treaty (aka the Florida Treaty and the Transcontinental Treaty) was an agreement signed on Febru ary 22, 1819 between the United States and Spain that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the United States and New Spain (now Mexico) for 5 million dollars. Land about 42 degrees north
What was the Era of good feelings?
There was no party politics (1816 2 Bus)
Alien Sedition Act
These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
Whig Party
Thinks Jackson acts like a king
Who was the 3rd President?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was his vice President? What was the problem?
Thomas Jefferson. The two were complete opposites.
Jay's Treaty
Treaty between Great Britain and US to avoid war
What was the Embargo Act?
U.S Ships can't sail to any foreign ports (Really hurts economy)
Treaty of Greenville
US gave the natives 110,000 for Ohio
Nullification Controversy
United States sectional political crisis in 1832-1837, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. Andrew Jackson was going to "Kill" everyone is South Carolina who did not agree with him. They disagreed with the tariff of 1832
Monroe Doctrine
Western Hemisphere is off limits for further European Colonization
9th president
William Henry Harrison - Died 30 days into presidency
Who were the War Hawks? Which two men led the War Hawks?
Young men born to hate the british. Henry Clay (KY) John C Calhoon (SC)
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Tariff of 1828
was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States